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A Theory of Thinking: The Constructive Evolution of Complexity (15 Page PDF) (philpapers.org)
2 points by MabajanMbjnovch 4 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hey HN, author here.

My approach is based on a philosophical thesis: thinking is the spontaneous and logical evolution of complexity through generalization. The manuscript describes an effective algorithm that implements this idea. I call it a thinking algorithm.

A word of warning: this is a purely "philosophical" algorithm. There are no experiments or proofs, just the motivation and the description. The goal was to build a different kind of animal, not another sophisticated parrot. And at the very end, there's an optional bit of pseudo-constructive, Leibniz-style philosophy of consciousness.

Hope you find it interesting.




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